Has Anyone Got A Directory \"Walker\" Available

[Stephen Barncard]

there's actually a directory walker search one can use in a shell command
 on mac that is quite speedy...

let me report back.

sqb

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Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
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On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote:
>
> > I wonder if shelling out to DIR on Windows and LS on Linux/Mac
> > wouldn’t be the fastest option…
>
> Maybe, but there's overhead in setting up the shell session.
>
> Even if it's measurably faster, I would be surprised if it were noticeably
> faster.
>
> Anything that depends on touching the disk with each call is likely to be
> far more I/O-bound than CPU-bound.
>
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